Oko
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I have an old file server with 24 bays which I inherited from a system admin who left our lab 2 years ago. The server is currently running Red Hat 6.5 and having two large softraids 6. The RAIDs are on the life support as the server originally was running Ubuntu 8.0.4 and then "upgraded" to Red Hat. Each power down cycle is a night mare and requires partition search and manual RAID assembly. As soon as the data is migrated the server will be running FreeNAS or TrueOS. I found current RAID card to be supper low quality LSI Symbios Logic SAS1068E Fusion-MPT SAS which currently works in JBOD mode. I was thinking to replace is with two IBM ServeRAID M1015, crossflashed to IT mode. . Why two. Well because my understanding is that M1015 supports up to 14 HDDs. Will having two HBA controllers be a problem. I could buy one new HBA controller from our regular vendor but I would like to keep the purchase low profile as some people might question my decision to remove Linux.